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Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) is relaxing its ban on political ads as part of Elon Musk's plan to loosen the platform's rules about the types of...

Moving forward, we will align our advertising policy with that of TV and other media outlets. As with all policy changes, we will first ensure that our approach to reviewing and approving content protects people on Twitter. "Today, we're relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey had banned those ads because of their potential for misinformation.

Twitter claims this relaxation [will help](https://twitter.com/twittersafety/status/1610399203481784320?s=46&t=iD3tIg_4VhOVJsXw8nJWkA) “facilitate public conversation around important topics.” Related stories Recently, the platform [abruptly banned links](https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/18/twitter-wont-let-you-post-your-facebook-instagram-and-mastodon-handles/) to rival platforms only to quickly [reverse course](https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-external-links-mastodon-1849909896) upon backlash. Ending the enforcement of the [covid misinformation](https://apnews.com/article/twitter-ends-covid-misinformation-policy-cc232c9ce0f193c505bbc63bf57ecad6) policy was a misguided move, too. One more thing: What are cause-based ads and how are they changing? Maybe political advertisers can fill the void these corporations are leaving behind ahead of the 2024 election cycle. Musk reinstated users that had been banned for inciting violence or discrimination even as some, like rapper Ye (formerly Kanye West) were [swiftly kicked off again](https://qz.com/elon-musk-kanye-west-free-speech-twitter-suspended-1849846466). 3) said it plans to “expand the political advertising” permitted in the coming weeks. “Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. The problem with online political ads, in Jack Dorsey’s words [left the platform](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-top-advertisers-elon-musk) since Elon Musk’s [takeover](https://qz.com/the-ways-in-which-elon-musk-could-change-twitter-on-the-1849708576) in October. [Ring Car Cam](https://amazon.com/Introducing-Ring-Car-Cam-dual-facing/dp/B08LZFPQNV/?asc_campaign=InlineMobile&asc_refurl=https://qz.com/elon-musk-twitter-political-ads-ban-reversal-1849947591&asc_source=&tag=kinjapromo-20) Twitter is losing advertisers [tweeted](https://twitter.com/twittersafety/status/1610399203481784320?s=46&t=iD3tIg_4VhOVJsXw8nJWkA).

It's the latest change by Elon Musk as he tries to pump up revenue after purchasing the social media platform last year. The company tweeted late Tuesday (Jan.

Twitter banned all political advertising in 2019 as it reacted to growing concern about misinformation spreading on social media. It also says it plans to expand the political advertising it permits in the coming weeks. UNDATED (AP)- Twitter says it will ease up its 3-year-old ban on political advertising.

Twitter has announced that political advertisements will be allowed back on the platform, despite a ban on this type of advertising in 2019.

In the next few weeks, the company will also expand the political advertising that is allowed on the platform. [Twitter Business support page](https://business.twitter.com/en/help/ads-policies/ads-content-policies/cause-based-advertising.html) on cause-based advertising states that advertisers that only target US users are exempted from the restrictions around cause-based advertising. The change comes amid a range of other tweaks to the platform and its policies. Twitter has announced that political advertisements will be allowed back on the platform, despite a ban on this type of advertising in 2019. The only exemptions under this policy were news publishers who met exemption criteria and were advertising content that referenced political content. The announcement was made on 3 January 2023 by the Twitter Support account.

Since Elon Musk's takeover, advertisers have paused spending amid fears of a rise in divisive content.

Advertising is Twitter’s main source of revenue, accounting for 90% of its $5.1bn turnover in 2021. In a post on Twitter’s safety account, the company said it would align its advertising policy with that of TV broadcasters and other media outlets. According to a

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"We also plan to expand the political advertising we permit in the coming weeks," the company said from its Twitter Safety account. The company tweeted late on Tuesday that "we're relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US". Twitter says it will ease up on its three-year-old ban on political advertising, the latest change by Elon Musk as he tries to pump up revenue after purchasing the social media platform last year.

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President Donald Trump and rushing a paid verification feature that resulted in scammers impersonating publicly listed companies on Twitter. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story One platform that still bans political ads is Chinese video app TikTok. [(META.O)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/META.O) Facebook and Alphabet Inc's [(GOOGL.O)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/GOOGL.O) YouTube, which allow political advertising. The company tweeted on Tuesday it would relax its advertising policy for "cause-based ads" in the United States and align its ad policy with TV and other media outlets. Jan 4 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc will reverse its 2019 ban on political ads, the company's head of trust and safety confirmed to Reuters on Wednesday, as the Elon Musk-owned company seeks to grow revenue.

The social media platform tweeted that it would relax its advertising policy for 'cause-based ads' in the US.

It also restricted advertisements related to social causes. [relax its advertising policy for “cause-based ads”](https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1610399203481784320?s=20&t=Zs43oQPApgxE2-bM14fQlg) in the United States and align its advertisement policy with TV and other media outlets. The social media platform tweeted that it would relax its advertising policy for ‘cause-based ads’ in the US.

Like and retweet counts. All of these qualifiers are already built into the app, and are available in the Advanced Search tab on desktop ( ...

All of these qualifiers are already built into the app, and are available in the Advanced Search tab on desktop (accessible by clicking on the ‘Advanced Search’ link in the Search box after you’ve conducted a keyword search). You can use them, but you basically need a working understanding of Boolean search parameters to utilize these additional qualifiers in the mobile app. [screenshots](https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/1610708602133819392), posted by social media expert [Matt Navarra](https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/), Twitter’s advanced search on mobile will provide you with a range of additional qualifiers for your queries, including:

The feature makes it easier to find specific tweets you're looking for by filtering based on date, user, retweet count, hashtags and more. Sure, this ...

Twitter owner Elon Musk was urged by the hacker to buy the data before malicious actors, to avoid users “losing trust” in the social media site.

This was also referred to by the hacker in their Breached Forums post. This vulnerability allowed malicious actors to learn if an email address or phone number was associated with an existing account by entering the number or email address and attempting to log in. Users of the site have urged Musk to publicly comment on the data breach. [@elonmusk], since you don't seem to have much a media/comms team anymore, can you address the apparently legitimate claim that someone scraped & is now selling data on hundreds of millions of Twitter accounts? celebrities or politicians), that they will “for sure make them ghost the platform” and “ruin [Musk’s] dream” of Twitter being a video sharing platform. The dataset was uploaded to Breached Forums on December 23, 2022, by a hacker going by the screen name ‘Ryushi’.

Hackers could also use the email addresses to attempt to reset passwords and take control of accounts, especially those not protected by two-factor ...

The new batch is likely to add to the intensity of that probe and an ongoing inquiry by the U.S. The report from January 2022 came during a chaotic month when the company fired both of its top security officers. Frequent account takeovers led to a 2011 settlement with the FTC that Zatko said the company has been violating. [investigating ](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-23/twitter-probed-by-top-eu-privacy-watchdog-for-pre-musk-era-leak)the earlier breach and that Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation might have been violated. Those lookups could be automated to check an unlimited list of emails or phone numbers. [August ](https://privacy.twitter.com/en/blog/2022/an-issue-affecting-some-anonymous-accounts)that it had learned of the vulnerability in January 2022 through its reward program for bug reports and that the vulnerability had been accidentally introduced in a code update seven months before that.